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Turn off HIPS or leave it turned on? [ESET]


Sonar

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Ive read a topic somewhere on here with someone mentioning to turn off HIPS.

1. Does turning off HIPS have a defect In anyway, Antivirus and everything still works?

2. isit as simple as going into the setup and unticking 1 box? which grays out self defense.

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I disable HIPS, myself as the one built into ESET is extremely low-end and lacks in granularity (you might yet find others in love with it.) :(

1. Does turning off HIPS have a defect In anyway, Antivirus and everything still works?

Not for me - I've got COMODO backing me and I use EAV, yet - don't see why other modules should stop functioning.

2. isit as simple as going into the setup and unticking 1 box? which grays out self defense.

Nope, Self-defense and HIPS are two different things - un-tick HIPS and take a reboot to see the effect kick in.
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Turn on learning mode for FW and HIPS and after that Bare with HIPS for a while and all will be perfect ;)

Really... get used to use HIPS.

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I also disable HIPS because depends what you have behind AV what says

RocketMan....

I am have ESS HIPS disabled and backing me is EXE radar pro thats is better than HIPS from ESS...

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Yeah, the HIPS in ESET is just marginally better than the UAC. I mean if one desires to grow - competency wise then, it's advisable to employ a full-fledged HIPS like the one in COMODO. :showoff:

Of course, for those who are content with low-end stuff the ESET HIPS is all that's required. <_<

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Yeah, the HIPS in ESET is just marginally better than the UAC. I mean if one desires to grow - competency wise then, it's advisable to employ a full-fledged HIPS like the one in COMODO. :showoff:

Of course, for those who are content with low-end stuff the ESET HIPS is all that's required. <_<

my eset (AV) HIPS is set on automatic - so disabling it - i shouldn't see no changes as it never has poped up to allow/block an app.

I also use comodo firewall.

Firewall = custom

Defence+ = safemode

sandbox = off

I disable UAC 99% (that's annoying).

Will try hips off as I don't use that part of eset.

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i always turn off ESET HIPS , why? because it's realllly lower the RAM Consumption :D and for HIPS it's better Comodo or Malware Defender..

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@ Sonar

You've got most things going right for you. :)

My only concern is that 2 HIPS are enabled, together - doing the same chore (and might most probably, conflict with each other - in future.) Disabling one of them would make it perfect for you. ;)

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ESET's HIPS is buggy. I left ESET because of CPU spikes. Only find out that it might be because it's HIPS was set to automatic. Plus, it's protection might not be enough.

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ESET = Fail ! In many AV tests.I used it a couple of times with no succes.Reasons ? : CPU spikes,''low quality'' virus definitions,poor protection.I strongly recommend u to give up on ESET and choose another vendor.

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ESET = Fail ! In many AV tests.I used it a couple of times with no succes.Reasons ? : CPU spikes,''low quality'' virus definitions,poor protection.I strongly recommend u to give up on ESET and choose another vendor.

I wont give up on eset, hopefully when we see number 6 they will have fixed alot more bugs for a stable anti virus.

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unknownasphyxiated

yup,still believe in eset because of its low on resource

tried kaspersky but slow down my low spec laptop

waiting for v6

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ESET's HIPS is buggy. I left ESET because of CPU spikes. Only find out that it might be because it's HIPS was set to automatic. Plus, it's protection might not be enough.

For which version?
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ESET's HIPS is buggy. I left ESET because of CPU spikes. Only find out that it might be because it's HIPS was set to automatic. Plus, it's protection might not be enough.

For which version?

v5.

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Really? I haven't noticed any of these happenings. Then again, I use Process Lasso so everything stays pretty stable.

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ESET = Fail ! In many AV tests.I used it a couple of times with no succes.Reasons ? : CPU spikes,''low quality'' virus definitions,poor protection.I strongly recommend u to give up on ESET and choose another vendor.

Don't know how we went off-topic (but, never mind - the main agenda seems to have been finished.)

Like most other software, the default settings of ESET are totally off the mark and need to be comprehensively configured - it's comparatively a much better offering than many other AntiVirus systems.

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